To make Northeast Ohio the Open Source Capital of the Brightest Greenest State of Earth, we must learn and import best practices from wherever in the world there is related excellence.

To develop a brightest greenest NEO we must learn best practices from regions demonstrating excellence with open source information technology, energy innovation, and agriculture systems for all crops including cannabis (hemp and marijuana).

ARE ANY OTHER FAMILIES CONCERNED ABOUT THIS MATTER??? ARE YOU AWARE THAT THERE ARE MANY SCHOOLS NOT LISTED ON THE SHERIFF'S WEBSITE??? WHAT DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD DO ABOUT THIS ISSUE??? PLEASE POST YOUR DIRECT OPINIONS ON THIS MATTER BELOW SO THAT WE MAY COLLECTIVELY ENGAGE OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS AND ADDRESS THIS MATTER IMMEDIATELY! 

One of the greatest tricks about living in Northeast Ohio is preventing harmful lead poisoning exposure for children and adults living here - some neighborhoods of Cleveland still have around 30% of children showing harmful levels of lead in their blood, causing permanent physical and mental harm. So it is appropriate the United States Senate has declared the week before Halloween - October 24-30 - as National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, which "calls upon the people of the United States to observe National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week with appropriate programs and activities."

In the spirit of the millions of Americans harmed by lead poisoning over the years, now dead and haunting those who cause such environmental harm on Earth today... may 2010 be the year when Northeast Ohio leaders get serious about protecting our children and adults from the trick of lead poisoning, as that is the greatest treat they may ever give to this community and themselves.

Was this reported in Cleveland?

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When politicians like Barack Obama, Ted Strickland, George Voinovich, Sherrod Brown, Marcia Fudge, Frank Jackson, Gary Norton and our councilpeople speak of the promise of "Clean Coal" and carbon capture and sequestration, ask the politicians how to safely capture coal slurry... especially after it has spilled... as that skill is needed in Ohio today. On October 1, 2010, Murray Energy (of Pepper Pike, Ohio) spilled 1,000s of gallons of toxic coal slurry into an Ohio stream, as reported by the Sierra Club in the video above. That is the same Murray Energy responsible for the collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine, in 2007, which "was so extensive, federal officials found no other mining disaster in the last 50 years to compare to it."

Was this reported in Cleveland?

The Sierra Club asks citizens to help stop Murray Coal from doing even more harm to our environment in Ohio...

Researching the EXTRAORDINARY NETWORK of Cleveland based organizations who are running full time staffs of people to help families in distress from the foreclosure industry has created jobs for those folks-while sending families in a whirlwind of agency chases, application processes, and network nightmares to ascertain direct assistance and relief...often times resulting in nothing more than denials, deferments, referrals, and wasted time that results in losing homes anyway....

Stock piling LLC's with real estate....1300 East 9th is now owned by OPTIMA 1300, LLC.... watch the way the word OPTIMA results in almost 50 County Recorder listings...connect the dots! 

Figure 1. Seasonal-mean temperature anomalies relative to 1951-1980 mean for the
most recent two summers and winters.

Climate Progress has a link today to an excellent report by NASA's top climatologist, Dr. James Hansen - “How Warm Was This Summer?” (copied below), which confirms that 2010 is equal to the hottest year on record, resulting in more extreme natural disasters worldwide this year, and forecasts worse impacts of climate change several years into the future, predicting "it is likely that 2012 will reach a record high global temperature." Meaning:

Given the association of extreme weather and climate events with rising global temperature, the expectation of new record high temperatures in 2012 also suggests that the frequency and magnitude of extreme events could reach a high level in 2012. Extreme events include not only high temperatures, but also indirect effects of a warming atmosphere including the impact of higher temperature on extreme rainfall and droughts. The greater water vapor content of a warmer atmosphere allows larger rainfall anomalies and provides the fuel for stronger storms driven by latent heat.

The bottom line boils down to these people learned the games that could be played after years of being politicians...then they collaborated with friends for long term investment strategies....they lobbied the government to change laws that would protect their stakeholders and then they implemented their mechanism to "GET RICH OFF THE PEOPLE" locally....

HOW???? 

Grateful for these video spots, but wish the camera person didn't have to weave during David Ellison's video...

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9IIT7U80.htm

 Chase foreclosures referred to federal prosecutor

deadline has expired....who can make the difference and get REALNEO access for several of our members????

RECLAIMING VACANT PROPERTIES: THE INTERSECTION OF SUSTAINABILITY, REVITALIZATION, AND POLICY REFORM...

OCTOBER 13-15 2010

http://reclaimingvacantproperties.org/session-descriptions/

 Whitney Houston's subsequent breakdown after this thrilling performance--it symbolizes everything I feel about America and everything I feel about being an American today.

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ARE YOU A CORRUPT PUBLIC SERVANT WHO IS TIRED OF HEARING THE 'TRIFLING NEEDY BEG FOR ASSISTANCE' WHILE YOU ARE HARD AT WORK FOR THEM? Are you one of the proud corrupt local leaders, agency representatives, or collusive liaisons of the corrupt? Are you one of the folks who turned a blind eye and deaf ear to the corruption? Are you one of the smug, 'better than everyone else,' jerks who think you are never going to be held accountable because all your pals will cover your behind? Are you one of those that got oversighted in the investigations? Are you just a pape

How about us having a REALNEO CONVENTION presented by NON CORRUPT CITIZENS???? 

United We Stand to Disrupt Corruption!!

A WEEK of REVITALIZING THE CITIZENS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY WITH AFFIRMATION, TRUTH, and REALITY....FUN ENTERTAINMENT WITH A PARODY OF THE CORRUPTION.... haha

HOW ABOUT WE INVITE ENTREPRENEUERS TO THE FOREFRONT WHO'VE BEEN STONEWALLED TO DATE???? 

The demographic data on Northeast Ohio did not support the big housing bubble that was never oversighted by our local elected officials during the "HOUSING BOOM" earlier this decade...

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I often ponder what are they thinking when I reflect on the current state of modern culture and the environment. Clearly, so does Kwame Anthony Appiah, a philosophy professor at Princeton University, who published an inspiring editorial What will future generations condemn us for? in the September 26, 2010 Washington Post, below - see a poll on this subject at the Washington Post website, and participate in a poll on the same issue on realNEO here - When future generations look back on us, what will shock them most?

Matthew Harris works with a white widow marijuana plant at Marjyn Investments LLC in Oakland, Calif.
He is among 40 workers who joined the Teamsters this month. (Associated Press)

In states where medical marijuana is legal, there are a wide range of jobs created in diverse industries, including healthcare, food preparation, pharmaceutical research and development, retail, and agriculture.  In Ontario, Canada, there are over 100,000 jobs associated with marijuana cultivation alone - and most of the marijuana grown there is exported illegally to America.

A 2010 Pew poll found approximately 40% of Americans have tried Marijuana, about the same number believe marijuana should be legalized outright, and 73% of Americans - over 7 in 10 - believe medicinal marijuana should be legalized. Those polling numbers say the writing is on the wall - marijuana is becoming mainstream industry in America, as Americans get their way nationwide! Where marijuana is legal, it is a high-growth economic engine churning activity in many clusters.

Generation Blank, X, and Y (why?), meet Generation Hot. That is the term given by Mark Hertsgaard to every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 - "when humanity was put on notice that greenhouse gas emissions were raising the temperatures on this planet. The warning came from NASA scientist James Hansen's testimony to the U.S. Senate and, crucially, the decision by the New York Times to print the news on page 1, which in turn made global warming a household phrase in news bureaus, living rooms and government offices the world over."

Hertsgaard is author of the soon-to-be-released book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth and has covered climate change, politics and the media for Vanity Fair, The Nation, Time, The New Yorker, NPR, L’espresso and other leading news outlets worldwide. In his Huffington Post article Meet Generation Hot, below, he states: "For Generation Hot, the brutal summer of 2010 is not an anomaly; it's the new normal."

Life is what we make of it. Fun is a matter of opinion. My friends used to say: "GO HAVE FUN!"

So, I'd go research, learn, and share as much as possible...

They said, "Go have fun!" I attended community forums, starting sharing the information, and working to unite our citizens about the issues at hand. 

As a firm, vocal supporter of Barack Obama - a blogger for Obama - I receive frequent emails from various democratic party affiliations... a recent barrage encourages me to order a free bumper sticker promoting my love for the Democratic Party - it seems they have decided they need to rebrand and reimagine themselves a bit, as "Democrats have launched the most ambitious voter-turnout effort we've ever seen for an election like the one this fall." "With this renewed focus, the Democrats have introduced a new website filled with innovations to better connect supporters with candidates, state parties, and each other -- and a new look to match that message." To me, the rebranding is poor and suggests a grade on a report-card... that grade being a "D".

What do you think - does the Democratic Party deserve a "D", since we elected Obama President... better... worse?

If you want to prove you are a true blue Democrat, the information to order your free "I got a D" bumper sticker is provided below....

Lot. 1559. In 1924, after the Hilldale Giants club from Darby, Pennsylvania captured the crown in the newly established Eastern Colored League and the western powerhouse Kansas City Monarchs won out in the four-year old Negro National League. The two teams met in what was scheduled to be a best of nine series for the World's Championship. However, a 13 inning tie in the pivotal game 4, with alternating wins throughout, forced a tenth and deciding game.